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this isnt about censorship its about the special protections they get for being a platform instead of a publisher,,,Obama WOULD sing an EO like this. Hes from the leftYanno, if Obama had signed an executive order like this, you conservatives would be screaming bloody murder.
Bullshit. Obama never signed something like this, nor did he ever bring it up, so no, you don't know if he would.
And for all you idiots who think that Twitter is censoring Trump, it helps to know what the word "censor" means.
censor
[ sen-ser ]
SEE SYNONYMS FOR censor ON THESAURUS.COM
noun
1. an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
2. any person who supervises the manners or morality of others.
an adverse critic; faultfinder.
3. (in the ancient Roman republic) either of two officials who kept the register or census of the citizens, awarded public contracts, and supervised manners and morals.
verb (used with object)
4. to examine and act upon as a censor.
5. to delete (a word or passage of text) in one's capacity as a censor.
As you can clearly see from the definition, in order for someone to be censored, it requires their speech to be edited, deleted, or modified in some way. Twitter has not modified Trump's tweets in any way, all they did was place a tag on it calling it questionable information. Sorry, but no, Trump is not being censored.
once they started altering/editing peoples comments they became a publisher and lose all those protections,,,